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...launched an over-the-phone life-insurance and health-insurance business in Britain called Virgin Direct; and his new British mutual fund is going gangbusters. As if all this weren't enough to keep him busy, in November he hopes to fly around the world nonstop in a balloon to set a new world record...
...like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk. They are thinking about how to deal with the problem, offering concrete proposals. This trial balloon may keep the Chechens negotiating until the elections, which is what the Russians really want right now, anyway." Donnelly attributes Yeltsin's fresh burst of campaigning and election promises to the fact that he is getting more information now than he has in a long time. "The information reaching Yeltsin has been...
...like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk. They are thinking about how to deal with the problem, offering concrete proposals. This trial balloon may keep the Chechens negotiating until the elections, which is what the Russians really want right now, anyway." Donnelly attributes Yeltsin's fresh burst of campaigning and election promises to the fact that he is getting more information now than he has in a long time. "The information reaching Yeltsin has been...
...California madhouse. Through the door of The State Hospital, 1966, you peer into a charnel house of the soul, in which an emaciated and filthy body lies on the lower bunk of a two-tier unit while his doppelganger lies on the one above, encircled by a neon thought balloon. He is the real patient's dream; there is no escape from the confinement and lunacy; one fortifies the other...
...years, but I've only batted one out of three. The other two times, I went up there, and probably shouldn't have swung at that outside pitch. But look around--I'm still leading the league, I think." With that, Leary takes another deep draw on his balloon so that he can, for the moment, drop...